Announcements
Gender equity has become a major conversation since the Women’s March in 2017 [/where-to-get-your-pussyhat-in-brooklyn/] and the world of sports is no exception. This year, Katie Sowers of the San Francisco 49ers [https://www.si.com/nfl/2020/02/02/katie-sowers-49ers-bio-first-female-super-bowl-coach] made NFL history as the first woman to coach
Sports
By Jerry Del Priore Professional boxer Julian Sosa is busier than your average 20-year-old. Sosa, a welterweight from Sunset Park, has fought seven times since turning professional approximately a year and a half ago, including his impressive, unanimous six-round decision over Rene Marquez (5-2, KOs) Sunday at the Ford Amphitheater
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Sweatbox Brooklyn. (Photo: Jacqueline Frias)By Jacqueline Frias When Argenis Arce saw the infamous ‘Rocky’ scene — where he runs up the stairs [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NubH5BDOaD8] — he knew he wanted to become a boxer at an early age. Arce would train himself by running laps around his
Arts & Culture
Photo by Jerry Del PrioreBy Jerry Del Priore Two of the borough’s most prominent fighters, Paulie Malignaggi and Gabriel Bracero, squared off Saturday night in a 10-round welterweight bout at the Barclays Center [/two-boxers-sunset-park-bensonhurst-battle-championship-barclays-center/#.V5-SaJMrI9c] on Showtime Extreme-aired — part of the preliminary undercard to the Leo Santa Cruz vs.
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(Courtesy: Gabriel Tito Bracero / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1463501060342635&set=a.440467722645979.122763.100000482658094&type=3&theater] )Call it the Battle of Brooklyn redux. Former two-division champion Paulie Malignaggi of Bensonhurst [/?s=pauli+m#.V4k1rpMrI9c]is gearing up to defend his Brooklyn’s
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(Courtesy: Gabriel Tito Bracero / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1463501060342635&set=a.440467722645979.122763.100000482658094&type=3&theater] )Boxing is coming back to Brooklyn. Former two-division champion Paulie Malignaggi of Bensonhurst is gearing up to defend his Brooklyn’s World Championship Belt in a
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Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope StoopIt’s round one. Let’s have a nice clean fight. On exhibition at the Morbid Anatomy Museum [http://morbidanatomymuseum.org/] (424 3rd Avenue at 7th Street). Take any photos in the neighborhood lately? Send them to editor@bklyner.com, add them to the
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Amy Valentine brought her daughter Brooke, 11 months, to the Paramount for her very first boxing match. (Photo by Michael Randazzo)In the first of what will become a regular program of public events at Long Island University’s (LIU) Brooklyn Paramount Theater, Thursday night the “Brooklyn Brawl” featured seven
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Councilman Vincent Gentile honored Bath Beach boxing coach Willie Vargas last week, presenting him with a Presidential Volunteer Service Award and a Gold Lifetime Achievement Award signed by President Barack Obama. Since 1979, Vargas has been teaching at-risk youth how to box – keeping them off the streets and teaching them
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These men not welcome in Borough Park. (Source: ifccenter.com)Assemblyman Dov Hikind has taken to his bully pulpit to let it be known that fight clubs are not welcome in his district. According to a curious press release [http://jpupdates.com/2013/10/28/brooklyn-hikind-vows-to-fight-the-fight-club-in-borough-park/] put out by JP
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Met legend Lee Mazzilli and his son L.J. Mazzilli (Photo by Jim Mancari via metsmerizedonline.com)New York National League fans were thrilled when Met baseball legend Lee Mazzilli’s son, L.J., was selected by the team in the fourth round as the 116th overall pick in the
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The much hyped Malignaggi and Cano [/paulie-malignaggi-brings-the-bensonhurst-to-barclays/] fight at Barclays ended in a victory and Welterweight title retention for our local sports star. For Malignaggi, there was never a question of his strengths in the match-up. He also assumed that next in line to fight him would be Ricky Hatton,
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Source: L. Frank Cabrera via Wikimedia CommonsBensonhurst brawler Paulie Malignaggi will make his Barclays Center debut on October 20th, reports ESPN. [http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/boxing/post/_/id/1857/malignaggi-to-fight-cano-awaiting-mystery-megafight] The “Brooklyn Pride” event will not have Malignaggi headline against Amir Khan as was expected. [/will-boxing-foes-amir-khan-and-bensonhursts-paulie-malignaggi-duke-it-out-again/] Instead, the
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source: SportsAngle.com (Bryan Horowitz) via FlickrBensonhurst native and ESPN boxing blog NYFights’ new number one choice as best pound for pound New York City fighter, Paul Malignaggi would like nothing more than a match up with WBA world welterweight champion Viacheslav Senchenko. The Twitter King’s [http://twitter.com/
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When we last checked in with Rockin’ Ray Fiore [/blog1.php/events/h-o-n-k-if-you-love-boxing-and-heroes], he was throwing a fundraiser for his H.O.N.K. (Help Our Neighborhood Kids) Boxing Club and Youth Center [http://www.rockinraysboxing.com/] here in Sheepshead Bay. Well, that was back in March, and apparently Ray